Horror Show Sunday: Even the Satanists Are Doing It!

Jose Reyes smiles for the cameras before his court appearance for murder.

I sometimes get accused of picking on Christianity because the overwhelming majority of the Religious Horror Show stories come from that tradition, but let’s be honest, most atheists live in a Christian-heavy culture, where they see the abuses day in and day out, it shouldn’t be surprising that Christians, as the single largest religious group on the planet, are also guilty of the lion’s share of the harm caused by religion. I talk about Islam and Hinduism and Buddhism, as well as smaller sects quite often though and now I add something a bit different to the mix. Here comes the harm caused by the Satanists.

Now most Satanists, at least those that follow the LaVeyan tradition, really don’t believe in Satan, they’re just hedonists who are trying to piss off the Christians, but there are those out there who really do believe that magic and spirits and the like are real. In Texas, prosecutors charged 17 year old Jose Reyes with taking part in the murder of a 15-year old girl to aid him in selling his soul to the devil. Reyes convinced a 16-year old friend to help him murder Corianne Cervantes, whose body was found in an abandoned apartment after having been missing for several days, by promising that once he had sold his soul to the powers of darkness, he would help his accomplice to do the same. Cervantes was raped, beaten and then beaten over the head with both an ashtray and the lid of a toilet tank until she died. When she was found, the body was surrounded by what police described as “religious items”. The corpse was found to have an inverted crucifix carved into her stomach. It is unclear whether it was carved into her flesh before or after she died.

Reyes, for reasons unclear to me, is being charged as a juvenile in the murder and if convicted, will receive life in prison with the possibility of parole. This person should never get out, but like Charles Manson, who comes up for parole every now and then, the chances that he’ll ever be released are slim to none. His 16 year old accomplice has also been charged with capital murder but details of his sentencing are unclear at this time.

So there you go. It’s not just the crazy Christians that are out causing demonstrable harm, even the crazy Satanists do it.

I think this is particularly interesting because, way back in the day, I went to a very religious private high school and one of my acquaintances was a guy named Ben, who was a self-professed Satanist. The school let him stay because his parents were rich and made regular donations to the school. Yes, they were hypocrites. Ben used to carry around the collected work of Anton LaVey, especially the Satanic Bible and talk to people about Satanism, but like most Satanists, I don’t think he bought into any supernatural elements, I think he just wanted to be a rebel.

Some people clearly buy into the bullshit. They need to be stopped. Welcome, Jose, to your well-deserved spot on Horror Show Sunday.

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465 thoughts on “Horror Show Sunday: Even the Satanists Are Doing It!”

"…it shouldn’t be surprising that Christians, as the single largest religious group on the planet, are also guilty of the lion’s share of the harm caused by religion."

There is no doubt that Christianity causes a great deal of harm. But your claim that it causes the greatest amount of harm of all the world's religions may not be the established fact you seem to think it is. A strong case can be made that Islam causes more harm than does Christianity. Christianity doesn't even come close to the level of harm and oppression Islam inflicts on women, gays, apostates, and other muslims in general. If you are going to maintain the claim you make above then you will need to offer some kind of comparative data to support the claim.

Which religion are you speaking of in your first sentence? If it is Islam, then I did in fact already mention it in my comment. But the acts of Islamic fundamentalists does not excuse nor exempt Christianity from criticism for its share of acts of harm and injury.

I do in fact blame those who commit the acts. Christianity shares in the blame and the guilt because these believers are acting in the name of their belief or they are able to commit these acts under the safety of that religion because of the privileged position we unjustifiably grant to religious belief. And you can't hide behind the defense that they are not following the principles of their religion. Christianity has such conflicted principles that there is no one standard, as you are claiming. If there were a single standard then there would be no division, for example, within the Christian community over the subject of homosexuality and same-sex marriage.

Mussys, Christards, and Jewdumb are a blight on human existence. All nothing more than a product of a stupid group of sheep shagging bronze age genocidal tribe of an ignorant baby eating, cult of land stealing dumbasses. The fact that people today still connect to these retarded fucks is mind boggling in itself. Of all of the 100,000 gods in human history that one could choose to follow; this Yahweh fuck has to be the worst possible choice.

Stalin, Mao, Hitler and Pol Pot were blights on humanity. But contrary to your idiotic understanding, they did not kill others in the name of atheism. They were ruthless dictators who killed in the name of their twisted political ideology. Among their millions of victims were people of different religious beliefs, and those of non-belief, i.e. atheists, They were all madmen who happen to be atheists, with the exception of Hitler, who was a christian. They did not commit their genocides and crimes against humanity in the name of atheism.

Yet none of those people acted out of their atheism, any more than Joseph Stalin's mustache is responsible for his actions. Find us a direct quote from any of these people where they say their actions were caused by their atheism. We can find quotes from Hitler that his actions were caused by his Christianity. Do the same.

You're just pulling that out of your ass, as usual. The only thing any two atheists have in common is not believing in gods. That's it. That's the whole of atheism. Anything else that you add, you're no longer talking about atheism, you're talking about something else.

I know this is really difficult for you to comprehend, most things seem to be, but just because an atheist talks about something, that doesn't mean it's atheism. Evolution has nothing whatsoever to do with atheism, in fact, the majority of Christians and other world religions accept evolution. We've all realized that you don't have a clue what you're talking about, maybe it's time you figured it out.

There's no real evidence that the mythical Jesus hated Jews. We know that the early Christians certainly did, they blamed the Jews for crucifying Jesus, but Jesus himself, there isn't anything in the Bible to suggest that he hated Jews at all.

John 3 is not objective evidence. The Gospel of John disagrees with events described in Mark, Matthew, and Luke. Moreover the unknown author(s) of this gospel wrote it in Greek near the end of the first century, and according to Bishop Shelby Spong, the book "carried within it a very obvious reference to the death of John Zebedee (John 21:23)." [Spong]

That's an assertion, there is no evidence that any of the people recorded in John 3 were actually real, we have no independent evidence that any of them existed at all. You're confusing mythology with history once again.

I gave 3 links, one link providing OE and two more with Jews explaining their culture. Of course you say they wrong and you are right because you know more about them then they do. YOu have no OE to shoe you have an EW either

But that's what all theists do. If they didn't, they couldn't be theists because it's painfully obvious to anyone who wants to look at the evidence objectively that religion is idiotic and asinine. Just look at how Roger operates, he's a perfect example of this kind of fallacious thinking. He refuses to provide objective evidence to support his claims, he finds some way to weasel out of it every time he's asked. He refuses to examine his beliefs critically and any time anyone criticizes what he believes, he flies off the handle and treats it like a personal attack.

It's really pretty funny when you look at it, but Roger will never understand just how idiotic the things that he believes really are, he can't allow himself to see it.

"It's really pretty funny when you look at it, but Roger will never understand just how idiotic the things…." Another example of how Cepuss won't allow personal digs. He's a phony? You're damn right he is.

Roger you ignorant fuck. The bibles New Testament was written by Greeks all of the Gospels are Greek! All of the early church leaders were GREEK/Roman. Jews would not convert to this new GREEK cult of Satan's own because they would never worship this false god of the GREEKS! Jesus/Satan even tells people in Rev 22:16 that he is Satan when he claims the title of being the Morning Star. A title given him in Isaiah 42:12 only thru the Christian cult has he managed to set his throne above that of God. You have been fooled, and will burn. If you believe this stupid book? Jews, and Muslims are the true people of God. Christians are Satan's people. That explains you.

1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. 2 The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. 3 We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 4 We write this to make our[a] joy complete.

You used gossip sites that ignore that there is an actual record written by eye witnesses.

You prefer gossip since you are so agenda driven a hack that doesn't even live up to the standards you try imposing and in the process ignore the eye witnesses recorded and protected ever since by those that wanted it safe.

You just don't understand do you? Your propaganda isn't working, not today and not very often when someone is willing to explain why you're just a hack.

You linked to a site with formalized gossip, not a site that provided any proof and I provided proof for my position hat you were 1)wrong (the messianic Jews did that)
2)the formalized gossip you linked to proved my point for me. The opening paragraph I quoted from your site laid out my case just fine.

Why do you think you can mislabel my comment a lie and not have me challenge you on it?

They were exactly what I just laid out. Why do you get so angry and cranky when someone explains that you can't debate, need a special set of new and different standards to pretend you can, and then ignore everything everyone else explains as if you're the final authority?

Tradition is formalized gossip, deal with it or not. That's what it is. And that's what you tried using.

No, you went round and round on it, there was no "we". So again, where is your independent objective evidence for your claims? You know, things outside of the Bible. Let us all know when you come up with some.

Satanist, are nothing more than another sick Christian cult. The Christian cult consists of multi-tier system of god heads God the father, Casper the ghost, Jesus the good son? Satan the bad boy, and many other lower sub-divines like Angels, Demons, Saints, and so forth. Clearly the God of the bible states that Satan/Lucifer is the lord of the earth. Mormons like Roger's Ex Mormon Bishop Mittens GOP darling believes that Jesus, and Satan are actually brothers. So one expects this from yet another wack-a-doo Christian cult like the Satanist.

In reality, most Satanists don't believe in Satan, any more than they believe in God. They're just hedonists trying to piss off the dominant religion in society. If you read some of the works by Anton LaVey and others, you'd see that all the rituals are really just making fun of Christianity, they don't buy into any of the bullshit.

And then you ignore all the problems with your reasons, you ignore all calls for evidence for your claims, etc. You're not defending the factual correctness of your claims, you're just giving rationalizations why you believe it. That's not impressive.

OMG Roger — Are you STILL doing the same old shit? I didn't want to ever comment to you again because you truly sicken me, but I found a comment I made to you at least 2 years ago….you haven't changed one goddam bit:
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I'm poking my head in here because I just can't stand it any longer. When you go to my ID page, Roger, you'll find I'm a nobody who hasn't even commented in months. But JezusHCrist, don't you ever tire of mouthing your same crap day after day, week after week? I starting seeing your idiocy months and months ago on that Pirates site and watched in disgust as you rambled on and on, constantly throwing out your same tired reference to this Brietbart comment; then you started with the goat garbage. Here's an idea: If you can't find something else to do in Nebraska other than stalking another commenter, go do some volunteer work in an area that goes along with your political beliefs."
Good gawd STFU!!!!!!!!!

Hi TNM. I don't agree with everything you say and I am more than willing to engage you in civil debate and share ideas with you. You lean conservative, I lean liberal, but I think we can exchange ideas and learn from each other. Isn't that the point of these forums? That's my understanding.

And so long as people can engage rationally and politely, that's great, I'd love to engage with liberals and theists who can think about their beliefs intellectually. Unfortunately, as we see with Roger, that's very difficult to find.

I would also say I agree with liberal and conservative ideas. This whole concept of each side not agreeing with each other over anything is self defeating. Like I have said before conservatives and liberals will argue over what a piece of shit smells like. It's a fucking turd who cares?

TNM, how many pretend profiles are you posing under this morning from your work terminal? Each one matches you so closely why do you think when you slip up and use on to answer for the other that people won't notice?

There's nothing wrong with using multiple profiles, it's certainly not against the rules, I was just correcting Roger's misconception that some of these different accounts were not coming from the same IP.

I can't say whether you do or not, all I can go by is the information I see here and I haven't seen evidence of it. Then again, I think this whole "following people around to different blogs" thing is really stupid and childish.

Playing nice isn't when someone who does advocate for violence keeps saying I do.

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"The whole town needs locked in the church and the church set on fire. IMO" His version of what is justified violence, (based on a rumor) and mine (based on self defense) are two different things entirely.